Industrial Visit - Coca Cola -- Report

Industrial Visit – Coca Cola August 4, 2012: Kolkata Coca Cola states that "Every person who drinks a Coca Coca-Cola Cola enjoys a moment of refreshment and shares an experience that millions of others have savored." There is no denial of the fact that all of these individual experiences combined have created a worldwide phenomenon – a truly global brand. And indeed, it was this global brand, that members of GBS Yi-Net Yi had an opportunity to get up close se with, when they got a chance to visit the plant of Diamond Beverages Pvt. Ltd., an independent franchisee of Coca Cola India. This plant is responsible for the manufacture, sale and distribution of beverages in the Eastern India, focusing mostly at Kolkata ata and its outskirts; and that explains the enormity and size of the production facility available at the plant. Coca Cola, serves in India some of the most recall recalled ed brands from across the world and nationally, including names such as Coca Cola, Diet Cok Coke, e, Sprite, Fanta, Thums Up, Limca, Maaza and Kinley (packaged drinking water), with the Minute Maid being the latest brand flaunted by the company. The industrial visit to the Coke plant at Taratala, Kolkata was an enriching experience for the fifteen members of GBS Yi-Net,, accompanied by Mr. Rabindra Tatia, GBS Yi-Net Net Guide and Ms. Arpita Chowdhury, GBS Yi Yi-Net Net Faculty Guide. Guide The attendees got to understand the entire process of bottling and how a Mega Mega-plant plant works to maintain its large outputs of tens of thousands of bot bottles tles a day. On reaching the plant at 10:30AM, we were greeted by Ms. Nawiz Khan, the HR executive at the training room for the initial briefing. From there we were taken to the processing unit by the Plant in in-charge charge where all the stages from cleaning to thee final crowning (of glass bottles) and from blow molding to capping (of PET bottles) of Thums Up and Maaza aaza were seen, respectively. All of us us, visiting the plant, were amazed at the speed at which the process occurred and how the automated systems could be set according to requirements, nts, as majority of human intervention was only required during loading and unloading of the bottle crates and while conducting the random quality checks. The GBS Yi-Net Net members were also taken to see the Rain Water Harvesting Plant setup by Coke when asked about the company’ company’ss CSR initiatives. This was followed by a brief presentation by the Quality in-charge charge at the plant about the history of Coca Cola and its products. Following the presentation, the three representatives interacted with the members and answered all queries regarding the Soft Drink industry stry along with those about the manufacturing and branding of Coke and its products. Mr. Arnab Majumdar, the General Manager of Diamond Beverages also spared couple of minutes from his busy schedule to interact with the members. members On the whole, it was an exemplary learning experience that the members of GBS Yi-Net will savor for a long time to come.